32 Bible Verses about Self Esteem

Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

Such is the confidence I possess through Christ in my service of God.

So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.

But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God

through whom, as we have faith in him, we enjoy our confidence of free access.

Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him.

Now do not drop that confidence of yours; it carries with it a rich hope of reward.

If our heart does not condemn us, beloved, then we have confidence in approaching God,

never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these."

and you belong to Christ, and Christ to God.

We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege.

hold them in special esteem and affection, for the sake of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

just as the parts we consider rather dishonourable are the very parts we invest with special honour; our indecorous parts get a special care and attention

It matters very little to me that you or any human court should cross-question me on this point. I do not even cross-question myself;

but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value.

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Now the confidence we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will;

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself ??that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;